From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LRVFk-0006TT-3d for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 26 Jan 2009 17:28:04 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 83959E049D; Mon, 26 Jan 2009 17:28:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F52AE049D for ; Mon, 26 Jan 2009 17:28:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from gentoo.org (xray.science.oregonstate.edu [128.193.220.51]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 110EA64509 for ; Mon, 26 Jan 2009 17:28:01 +0000 (UTC) Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 09:28:00 -0800 From: Donnie Berkholz To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] slot deps in package.mask and profiles Message-ID: <20090126172800.GC2928@comet> References: <497B8758.9030309@gentoo.org> <20090125210437.1e8b3fed@snowmobile> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="n2Pv11Ogg/Ox8ay5" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090125210437.1e8b3fed@snowmobile> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-Archives-Salt: f4153f26-b191-44ed-b3aa-daf08e0e2071 X-Archives-Hash: 478d0e7c99e181e1608e83fbedf04f7e --n2Pv11Ogg/Ox8ay5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 21:04 Sun 25 Jan , Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Sat, 24 Jan 2009 20:25:44 -0100 > "Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto" wrote: > > I talked to Zac earlier in #gentoo-portage about adding an > > entry to package.mask for KDE-4.2.0 using slot deps. Thomas > > and Patrick raised the concern we might > > need profile eapis and that PMS nailed p.mask to EAPI-0. > > Zac confirmed that the first stable version to support slot deps in p. > > mask was 2.1.3.16, that it was stabled in bug 197165 - 14 months ago > > - - and that the first stages to include it were the 2008.0 stages. > > Thus, can we finally give the ok to use slot deps in package.mask? Can > > we also give the ok to use it everywhere in all 2008.0 and later > > profiles/ ? >=20 > The Council approved profile eapi files for use a while ago (can't > remember when -- http://council.gentoo.org/ isn't being updated), and Last month's meeting > they discussed timeframes for using newer EAPIs then too. Did you see > that discussion? "An EAPI=3D0 profile always needs to exist so that users with old portage= =20 can upgrade. Otherwise they will sync and have no valid profile=20 available so cannot emerge a new version of portage. "Decision: Approved. Existing stable profiles must use EAPI=3D0. New or dev= =20 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ profiles can use higher EAPIs. "Ref: http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/msg_930f58fcebcbbcbe523c001f2c8= 25179.xml" I haven't finished & posted last month's summary=20 yet because of a=20 long holiday vacation and lots of work deadlines after returning. I'll=20 get all that stuff updated this week. --=20 Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Developer, Gentoo Linux Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com --n2Pv11Ogg/Ox8ay5 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAkl98qAACgkQXVaO67S1rtuRzQCfelDZ49lqWERhxViZvFtvJReO w5IAoJDC6xj0bXjnEnGxFGF6xCBVa9rE =ZWwx -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --n2Pv11Ogg/Ox8ay5--